Raising scientific issues

A second presentation of Emmanuel Legrand concerned the AROME project at Météo-France and the ALADIN involvement in this project. AROME (Application of Research to Operations at MEsoscale) was launched late 2001 at Météo-France with the aim to prepare a list of objectives, needed research tasks and planification steps for a target around 2009. Up to now, the work has been organised/planed in the following way : internal open debates, guidelines for further discussions, working groups on selected topics, feasibility studies, strategic decisions (2002-2003), effective work on the project. This project could concern a merge of ALADIN and Meso-NH bests to create a new configuration taking advantage of the two models especially at high resolution. This could have obviously heavy consequences on all ALADIN project components : manpower, computational power,...etc. Jean-François Geleyn explained the different preliminary scientific scenarii of this long term project, and M. Beysson suggested to invite ALADIN partners at Météo-France own meetings about this project. The ECMWF representative didn't consider the connection to ECMWF as a constraint to this project. Some participants asked for documentation on the Meso-NH model. Some is available at : http://www.aero.obs-mip.fr/ mesonh/